Glider Badge with airborne background trimming from an unknown WWII glider infantry regiment
The Glider Badge was a special skills badge of the United States Army. According to the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry, the badge was awarded to personnel who had "been assigned or attached to a glider or airborne unit or to the Airborne Department of the Infantry School; satisfactorily completed a course of instruction, or participated in at least one combat glider mission into enemy-held territory.
The GliderBadge was a special skills badge of the United States Army. According to the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry, the badge was awarded to personnel...
influenced by the Parachutist Badge worn when the division was on jump status, as well as the GliderBadge worn by glider units during World War II. Charles...
The Glider Pilot's Badge (German: Segelflugzeugführerabzeichen) was a German military decoration that was awarded during World War II to military pilot's...
Georgia; the Air Assault Badge for completion of the U.S. Army's Air Assault program at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; or the Bulldog badge for the completion of...
The Glider Pilot, Liaison Pilot, and Service Pilot badges were qualification badges of the United States Army Air Forces issued during the years of World...
competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere...
Excellence-in-Competition Badge (post yours too!), U.S. Militara Forum, last accessed 31 December 2012 Title 32: National Defense, Section 578.95 - GliderBadge (Rescinded)...
Glider infantry (also referred to as airlanding infantry esp. in British usage) was a type of airborne infantry in which soldiers and their equipment were...
Air Assault BadgeGliderBadge Pathfinder BadgeBadges of the United States Army Badges of the United States Air Force Parachute Rigger Badge Archived 2011-06-17...
A parachutist badge (or parachutist brevet) is a badge awarded by armed forces or paramilitary forces (e.g. certain law enforcement agencies) of many states...
Korean Order of Military Merit, Taegeuk (2023) Colombian Lancero Ranger Badge Colonel Ralph Puckett Parkway, a stretch of First Division and Dixie roads...
Airborne Division when he parachuted into Normandy on D-Day. He also landed by glider in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden. In December 1944, the...
Airmobile Badge (renamed later that year as the Air Assault Badge), the design of which was based on the GliderBadge of World War II. Initially the badge was...
Parachute Infantry Regiment as it landed on Tagaytay Ridge, met the 188th Glider Infantry Regiment and marched into Manila. It met minimal resistance until...
Citation Non-U.S. service awards United Nations Service Medal Republic of Korea War Service Medal U.S. Army badges Combat Infantryman BadgeGliderBadge...
competitions, records and badges that apply to gliders and motor gliders. The term "sailplanes" is sometimes used. Hang gliders and paragliders have a separate...
incorporated in the Mercian Regiment's uniform: Arm badge: a gold wire Stafford knot and gliderbadge with a backing of "Brown Holland" material on a black...
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